What is Alliance Fiber Optic Products Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was $207.35 Mil.
Alliance Fiber Optic Products's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 was $13.13 Mil. Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was 6.33%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
AFOP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.35 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.
A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was 42.79%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Electronic Components subindustry, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Alliance Fiber Optic Products's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Alliance Fiber Optic Productss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
Alliance Fiber Optic Products's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $13.13 Mil.
Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.
Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.
Be Aware
Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.
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Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) Business Description
Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc was incorporated in California on December 12, 1995. The Company designs, manufactures and markets fiber optic components and integrated modules incorporating these components, for communications equipment manufacturers and service providers. The Company products including interconnect devices that are used to connect optical fibers and components, couplers and splitters that are used to divide and combine optical power, and dense wavelength division multiplexing, or DWDM, devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. Its lines of optical products support the needs of current and next generation optical network systems applications. Its connectivity product family provides a comprehensive line of optical interconnect devices, couplers and splitters, PLC (planar lightwave circuits) and related optical products, as well as customized integrated modules incorporating these devices. Its optical passive products include WDM, CWDM and DWDM components and modules that utilize thin film filter technologies to separate optical signals, variable attenuators, optical switches and other optical devices utilizing micro optic lensing technology including integrated electro-optical modules incorporating these products. It sells its products to communications equipment manufacturers in the United States and also maintain a sales support staff in Taiwan to service customers based in the Asia Pacific region. The Companys main competitors in the components market include JDS Uniphase Corp., Oclaro Inc., Oplink Communications, Inc., Senko Advanced Components and TE Connectivity.
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